45 6 Proteacece. 



greatly enlarged and thickened in fruit ; per.-tube adnate to 

 ov., segm, 3-6 in male, 4-8 in fern,, in 2 valvate rows ; stam. 

 3, opp. outer per.-segm., fil. usually with 2 glands, anth. 2- 

 celled, opening at the edge; staminodes (in fern, fl.) 4, 

 globose, ov. inferior, style short, stigma dilated, lobed; fruit 

 enclosed (except the top) by the enlarged thick fleshy 

 involucel, pericarp thin ; seed globose, testa hard, ribbed, 

 cotyledons large, fleshy, much lobed. — Sp. 8 ; i in Fl. B. 

 Ind. 



H. peltata, Meissn. in DC. Prod. xv. i, 263 (1864). Palatu, S. 



Burm. Thes. 171. Fl. Zeyl. n. 423. H. Sojiora, L., Moon Cat. 62; 

 Thw. Enum. 258. C. P. 2914. 



Fl. B. Ind. V. 188. Wight, let. 1855. Bedd. Fl. Sylv. t. 300 (dis- 

 sections by Thwaites). Seem. Fl. Viti. t. 52. 



A large tree with wide-spreading head, branchlets stout, 

 young parts pilose ; 1. large, 4-6 in., broadly ovate, peltate, 

 obtuse or acute, entire, glabrous, palmately veined, petiole as 

 long as 1. ; fl. pedicellate, in threes (the central one fem. the 

 lat. ones male), surrounded by an involucre of 4 oval pubes- 

 cent bracts, at ends of long divaricate branches of lax 

 spreading axillary panicles; perianth finely tomentose, segm. 

 oblong-oval, obtuse; fil. short; fruit nearly i in., ovoid, very 

 blunt, lobed and umbilicate on top, 8-ribbed. 



Seacoast of the moist region from Colombo to Matara ; rather rare. 

 Fl. Nov. 



Also at Andaman Is., Singapore, Malay and Pacific Is., N. Australia, 

 Madagascar, E. Africa, but not in Peninsular India. 



There is no specimen in Herm. Herb., but a good drawing. The 

 name H. Sonora, L., is now restricted to the American species, to which 

 it chiefly referred, but the two are scarcely separable. 



CXIV.— PROTEACE^. 



Trees, 1. alt., without stip., fl. regular, bisexual, in axillary 

 racemes; perianth-leaves 4, at first coherent but soon sepa- 

 rating to base, valvate, linear; stam. 4, inserted on upper part 

 of per.-leaves, anth. 2-celled with prolonged connective; ov. 

 small, superior, with 2 lateral or basal ascending ovules, style 

 very long, stigma clavate; fruit dry, indchiscent, ovoid; seed 

 solitary (rarely 2), embryo with large plano-convex cotyledons, 

 endosperm o. 



